Clean water and the health of the cities.
Contributors: Sedgwick, W. T. 1855-1921.; Whipple, George Chandler, 1866-1924.; Sedgwick, W. T. 1855-1921.
Series: Public health in America
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Water-supply -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Public health -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Waterborne infection -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of On recent epidemics of typhoid fever in the cities of Lowell and Lawrence due to infected water supply, by W. T. Sedgwick, first published in the 1893 Annual report of Massachusetts State Board of Health, Boston; of The value of pure water, by G. C. Whipple, first published in 1907 by Wiley, New York; of On the Mills-Reincke phenomenon and Hazen's theorem concerning the decrease in mortality from diseases other than typhoid fever following the purification of public water-supplies, by W. T. Sedgwick and J. S. MacNutt, first published in 1910 in The journal of infectious diseases, Chicago.